About the Role
The Search Platform team is responsible for the Search experience on several product surfaces at Uber, enabling millions of users to find, discover, and explore rides, food, etc. Search has played an increasingly important role in bringing Uber closer to its vision. The ideal candidate will bring extensive expertise in search infrastructure, showcasing a profound understanding of search algorithms, distributed systems, and scalability.
We are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer to play a key role in vector search and gen AI capabilities. You will get to work on cutting edge technologies and will get to work with industry experts ranging from distributed systems to machine learning.
What the Candidate Will Do

• Design and implement new features for vector search solutions at Uber.
• Join on call rotation, driving continuous improvements on system availability, scalability, performance and efficiency.
• Collaborate with other infrastructure teams, production engineer team and product manager to drive adoption and standardize processes, and to design and implement high impact, cross-product features.

Basic Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Proficient in one of the following programming languages: Java, Go, C/C or similar languages. Good scripting skills and ability to pick up new ones.
• Systematic problem solving approach and knowledge of algorithms, data structures and complexity analysis.
• Semantic Search, Vector Search and LLM related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Milvus, Apache Lucene, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Solr and other Search technologies is a plus
• Experience with highly available/fault tolerant, replicated data storage systems, large scale data processing systems or enterprise/cloud storage systems is also a strong plus

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$185,000 per year - USD$205,500 per year.
You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link .
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